Weeks stepdaughter, Brittany Lorritts, was found stabbed in the neck in her home in July 2005.

Weeks was charged with murder and rape five weeks later.

Two years after Lorritts’ death, Weeks entered an Alford plea to reduced charges of second-degree murder and second-degree rape. An Alford plea allows a defendant to plead to lesser charges without actually admitting guilt.

The rape charge was consolidated with the murder charge, and Weeks was sentenced to about nine years.

The story of the popular high school student's murder was the focus of two nationally televised crime shows on the Investigation Discovery Channel, “Nightmare Next Door” and “Redrum.”

He was released from prison in January 2015. The maximum sentence Weeks could have served would have been 11 years and eight months.